一位很有名的大牌经济学家,曾给他自己的专业下定义。经济学是以假设“人的本性都是自私的”为基本前提而展开的学问。“自私”两字,向来带道德的贬义。所以,经济学就常被“好人世界”弃如敝屣。自古以来,我们可爱的中国就一直是以道德立基的“好人世界”。现在,“好人世界”正在转,转成“能人世界”。两个世界其实合一,不同处只在它们的价值标准,好人世界讨厌讲经济学,能人世界则把经济学讲成发财捷径。其实,经济学的定义是不可以放到这两个世界中去理解的。经济学中的“自私”一词,有其客观的科学的涵义。经济学假定“自私”为人的本性,无非 A famous big-name economist, has given his own definition of professional. Economics is based on the assumption that “human nature is selfish” as its basic premise. The word “selfishness” always carries the moral derogatory. Therefore, economics is often discarded as “good world”. Since ancient times, our lovely China has always been a “good world” based on morality. Now, “good world” is turning, into a “world of energy.” The two worlds are in fact one and the same, their differences are only their values, the world of good people hates to talk about economics, and the world of affordability makes economics a shortcut to making fortunes. In fact, the definition of economics can not be put into these two worlds to understand. The word “selfish” in economics has its objective scientific connotation. Economics assumes that “selfishness” is human nature, nothing more